Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

He seemed to have a fascination with this stuff, ... We don't know, really, what he was up to. There were some pretty strange writings.

I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.